Entries in agriculture for income
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﻿Case studies describing how CRS and its partners worked with farmers and other stakeholders in Africa, India, Latin America, and Southeast Asia over the last five years to develop agricultural business enterprises. Each case focuses on a specific stage in the agroenterprise development process, and together they build a comprehensive outline of how to go about helping farmers enter and compete in agricultural markets. Introductory and concluding essays describe the "learning alliance" process that provided the foundation for these programs, synthesize the lessons learned, and map out a strategy for future work.

Developed in response to major changes the agricultural sector, this document states the principles that will guide CRS' support to poor, rural, agricultural communities over the next five years and sets new goals for the agency's work in urban and peri-urban areas.

Lays the groundwork for rural agroenterprise projects by leading service providers through an asset-based analysis of the area where a project takes place, a social profile analysis of the client group(s), and the establishment of an agroenterprise working group.

﻿This manual includes helpful programming and gardening tips to improve the performance implementation of homestead gardens. These are designed to provide insight into some of the lessons learned from implementing homestead gardening activities in Lesotho and to suggest possible adaptations or replacement materials.

A product of the experiences and lessons learned while implementing agroenterprise projects in eastern and southern Africa. A Market Facilitator’s Guide is based on a resource-to-consumption framework, which is the central theme of the “enabling rural innovation” (ERI) approach for rural development. This approach seeks to empower farmer groups with the necessary skills to make informed decisions for their economic development, based on an analysis of their surroundings, assets and skills. The methodology also aims for outcomes that are equitable, gender focused and participatory. Reprint of a document previously published by CIAT.

Another in a series of good practice guides describing the components of the participatory and area-based approach to rural agroenterprise development. Participatory Market Chain Analysis is based on the principles of developing market-led interventions that go beyond single intervention projects. The aim of this guide is to enable service providers to work with a range of actors in selected market chains and design interventions that initiate systemic changes in the marketplace. It leads practitioners to select market chains, conduct rapid market surveys, create business plans, conduct participatory market chain analyses, and negotiate strategies to increase competitiveness. This is a reprint of a document previously published by CIAT.

This field guide provides pointers for program managers and field staff on how to foster several crucial skill sets for preparing groups of poor farmers who are at a very early stage of engaging with markets and who aspire to successful agroenterprise development.

This one-pager showcases a CRS project called "Coffee Under Pressure (CUP)" that is helping coffee growing communities in Central America to adapt to climate change in order to ensure sustainable development. The project is the outcome of a CRS study that helped the organization predict the impact that climate change will have on coffee crops in the region.

Smallholder farmers in the Philippines have little bargaining power with local traders who control access to credit and markets. In 2008, Catholic Relief Services partnered with the Jollibee Foundation and the National Livelihood Development Corporation to connect 3,000 farmers to credit and markets.

CRS helps Haitian farmers profit from participation in key value chains and actively builds linkages with researchers, extension workers, traders, processors and agribusiness companies to support the production and marketing of products.

This paper briefly discusses the role of NGOs in agricultural interventions and highlights some of the key lessons learned from Catholic Relief Services' experience managing a multi-country banana (Musa spp.) project in Central and East Africa.